Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory

Some days, you just have to laugh. As WUWT readers know, we’ve had the Josh 2013 Skeptic Calendar done independently in the UK via Bishop Hill, and of course we gauged interest here at WUWT. Josh sent over the artwork via email which I turned into the USA version. (Note: Dr. Mann probably doesn’t realize that Josh is a professional illustrator in the UK who gives his climate caricature services to skeptics free each week, just for fun.) Last week I sent out a few free copies to some folks that I thought could really use some Christmas cheer: Dr. Mike Mann, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dr. Peter Gleick, and Dana Nuccitelli.

If four people is “widely distributed” well then I guess we all need to revise our world view.

It gets even funnier. Here is what he posted on Facebook:

The return label says COSTCO Photo Center, not Heartland, not Koch Brothers World Headquarters, and not “Skeptic Lair”. I guess Dr. Mann really is out of touch with the common man, because all he had to do was visit COSTCO photo center to see for himself that ANYONE can create and order calendars, and have them sent to friends or family, just like I did. No Koch Brothers credit card needed.

It is really easy. All you have to do is upload JPEG images (Josh’s artwork emailed to me) and use the calendar creator wizard.

Here’s what it looks like after completion in the COSTCO photo center website:

P.S. Oh, I should mention, I gave one to Steve McIntyre too. Here’s (Right to Left) Steve, Mosher, Charles the Moderator, and I at AGU in San Francisco at a private dinner at COCO500 (Steve and I split the check). Note the Josh calendar on the table:

UPDATE: 9AM PST 11/23 It seems Dr. Mann’s ploy has backfired. This article is now #1 on WordPress worldwide. See the screencap from the WordPress dashboard:

Looks like you got your $15.84 of pleasure from that particular calendar. I think your next move is to send Mike a bill. Hmm, that might be illegal, at least in his eyes. Perhaps if you add a VIP discount of $15.84 so the total comes to $0.00. I think rubbing virtual salt in a virtual wound can’t be much more than a virtuous offense. Include an order form for more.

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge…”

I had intended to take Robert Services poem and recast it or more a part of it, into some satirical comment. I know how Dr. Mann loves satire. He must he opens himself up to it so often. I have had too much joy reading Service over the years to do that. WUWT’s readers, are truly eclectic and clever enough to do that for themselves and they do not need my attempts, so the concept is my seasonal present to all of you. Enjoy the moment.

23 Dec: Saudi Gazette: Syed Rashid Husain: World on brink of losing battle vs. global warming
And with coal back on the global energy circuit, it is now set to surpass oil as the world’s top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market. China and others including India are already on the list, as the major consumers. Now energy-starved Pakistan, also seems evaluating seriously to exploit its huge Thar coal reserves to generate power and meet the burgeoning need of a rapidly growing population. The deposits – 6th largest in the world – were discovered in 1991 by Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United State Agency for International Development…
And the allure to use coal now is so tempting that even Europe is finding it hard to cut its use despite pollution concerns, the International Energy Agency now says in its recent Medium-Term Coal Market Report. As per the report, global coal demand will rise 2.6 percent annually over the next six years and challenge oil as the top energy source…

***A number of European countries have seen their use of coal for electricity consumption jump at the beginning of this year, including by 65 percent in Spain, 35 percent in Britain and 8 per cent in Germany…
“Thanks to abundant supplies and insatiable demand for power from emerging markets, coal met nearly half of the rise in global energy demand during the first decade of the 21st century,” said Maria van der Hoeven, the Executive Director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
Economic growth is expected to push up further coal’s share of the global energy mix, “and if no changes are made to current policies, coal will catch oil within a decade,” she said in a statement.
The latest IEA projections see coal consumption nearly catching oil consumption in four years time, rising to 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent in 2017 against 4.4 billion tons for oil…

An answer to Ina Warren from Mann’s response to your calendar.
“Put one in the time capsule. Anyone surviving the next century will need to see who sealed the fate on civilization.”
Maybe Ina will look like the fool when the warmist’s predictions don’t pan out in the next century!

The bile,the venting,the rage and the tweets.
I suppose a simple `Thank you` or a witty `touche` would have been completely beyond him.
Is there a secret Groanpeace funded medical facility where these predictable,tedious,irredeemably unfunny berks have their sense of humour surgically removed?

Dennis Nikols says:
December 22, 2012 at 6:40 pm
. … WUWT’s readers, are truly eclectic and cleaver enough to do that for themselves and they do not need my attempts, so the concept is my seasonal present to all of you. Enjoy the moment.

Now I’m worried.
Can I recharge my eclectic cleaver from a windmill where the sun don’t shine?
Wit will I do if my eclectic cleaver isn’t sharpened?
Can an eclectic cleaver cut Y’mall pine trees, or only a select few of them?

REPLY: Note I fixed the spelling error in the original comment – Anthony

Look, if Mike can deduce the earth’s temperature record from a few dodgy tree rings, I’m certain he can extrapolate an entire universe of conspiracy from the receipt of a simple calendar!
Why go to all the trouble of getting evidence when your ‘hunch’ is so reliable?

Mike clearly does not understand or appreciate the spirit of Christmas, i.e. the spirit of giving, which is characterized by generosity to loved ones, friends, associates and charity for the poor and downtrodden. He’s a true believer in that other religion–the one that demonizes humankind and asserts that man is changing the climate in ways that create a hell on earth. A modern version of original sin, you might call it.

Merry Christmas, Mike! If you don’t like your calender, donate it to someone less fortunate who can use it.

Dennis Nikols says:
December 22, 2012 at 6:40 pm
. … WUWT’s readers, are truly eclectic and cleaver ……
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Hmmm … Maybe if you’d sent him an electric cleaver he could go back to Yamal and cut down a few more trees rings? Who knows how history would be changed!

Tis the season for giving. You give a calendar to the gift that keeps on giving. And now he has a calendar to plan his future giving, day by day. So, you see, he is actually a most cheerful and jovial fellow, brimming with Christmas Spirit, and will go on giving and giving until he gives out.

Now, if he was the paranoid sort, brimming with suspicious malice, he would wonder why you chose to send him a calendar. Then….a light would go off in his genius brain. He’d remember the name of the fellow who worked with Keeling developing the “Keeling Curve” was named….”Callendar.”

Of course, of course! It’s all so simple, once you understand the devious subtleties of Anthony Watts……and his pack of wealthy oil tycoons. But he’s on to you now, fellows. Very soon he will figure out the mysterious code obtained by reading the calendar backwards, or upside down. So next year will find you blinking under the ruthless spotlight of his genius analysis….if he is the paranoid sort. (End Sarc.)

Have a merry Christmas, everyone! Into the darkest days there comes a bright light, called Truth. The tallest, darkest, most mighty shadow must fall away, even from the smallest light of that candle.

Love the social criticism Anthony makes when he ruminates on why Prof Mann doesn’t recognise the Costco photo centre production. You are 100% correct, Anthony, in my opinion. The well heeled Professor doesn’t shop where ordinary working people go to shop. These alarmists are the same in Australia. They all live in the best hip inner urban districts, have great, high pay, low stress government jobs and also, somewhat counter-intuitively, have the largest carbon footprints (Like Bongo from U2 or Lady Gaga).

Merry Christmas Mr. Watts, you are a prince among men and a credit to your country. To paraphrase Winnie I think we are at the end of the begining. All the best for 2013 and best wishes to you and yours.

What a sad wee fellow is this Mann. First he actually awards himself a Nobel Prize, no less, to boost his weeny ego, and now, like all paranoids, can no longer distinguish between humour and Big Persecution.

He’d be a whole heap of fun to be near at Christmas; probing the pudding for IED’s, checking the crackers for sarin, selecting the cherries of all one kind, and adjusting down the heating based on Sydney’s Christmas Day temp. .

You could have been a Scrooge miser and posted him the calendar without postage stamps. If the US postal Service works similar to other countries, then the recipient of the post is supposed to pay for the unstamped mail.

This episode shows yet again how poor Michael Mann’s reasoning processes are. He is just a Desmog blogger with a PhD, an angry activist who wants to change the world to suit his own beliefs. What he is NOT is a careful, rigorous thinker.

He ASSUMES that the calendar must have been sent to some vast number of people for free (already a huge leap without evidence), and then ASSUMES that the evil (sic) Koch bros. must have something to do with it.

Everything I see of Michael Mann makes me think that he is merely Michael Moore with a PhD, another hot-headed propagandist with no respect for factual accuracy.

You could have been a Scrooge miser and posted him the calendar without postage stamps. If the US postal Service works similar to other countries, then the recipient of the post is supposed to pay for the unstamped mail.

Wow. I hope Rodney Erickson (a fair guy on climate issues), interim president at PSU, is sent this thread. He needs to have Dan Larson (also a fair guy), Dean of the College of Science, get Mann some needed help. Sad. This is not helping Penn State.

u.k.(us) says:
December 22, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Steven Mosher says:
December 22, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Ya Anthony, I figure that you could start by contacting college republican groups and do group sales.
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Of what?

Merry Christmas Anthony and mods and thanks for almost another year so far of great posts
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Charles Gerard Nelson says:
December 22, 2012 at 7:43 pm

Look, if Mike can deduce the earth’s temperature record from a few dodgy tree rings, I’m certain he can extrapolate an entire universe of conspiracy from the receipt of a simple calendar!
Why go to all the trouble of getting evidence when your ‘hunch’ is so reliable?

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I thought the good Dr. Mann’s latest discovery was a temperature record partially based on “missing” tree rings(?)

I sent a spoof April Fool joke to a Nobel Prize winner in the UK a decade ago – it was a skit on Harry Potter and astrology called ‘Baccy Potter and the Nobel Laureate’s (dream about being) Stone(d)’ – it was spoof about a hippy astrologer reading the Nobel’s chart – of course it was done knowing a bit about the person’s life, which of course is scientifically unacceptable as you are supposed to ‘analyse data blind’.

What was hilarious was that people that I was a true believer in astrology. I wrote an astrologer’s interpretation of the state of the world at the exact time the Twin Towers came crashing down too, but that doesn’t mean astrology’s true, it just means that this is what astrology would say presented with a particular planetary constellation.

One thing people need to get a life about is this: just because you read about something, learn about its principles and mores, doesn’t mean you believe it per se. You don’t have to be a Christian to read the bible, a Muslim to read the Koran etc etc.

Thing about astrology is this: the way to test it scientifically is to analyse the charts of various people without telling them and see if their future lives bear any relation to the analysis.

No point in telling them the outcome, because by doing that you favour the possibility that they will either conform to the predictions or rebel against them due to the knowledge of what was said.

I’ve never come across anything more pathetic than scientists calling themselves scientists and then saying that the only people who can analyse one set of data is themselves.

True scientists are happy for anyone to do it, because they are confident that either they will be vindicated or a new truth will emerge.

I like the idea of Kenji sending these gifts in the future… and with, of course, a list of his esteemed credentials. And there could be pictures of Kenji in his lab coat, running complex experiments on cutting edge research…. on…. yellow snow, or something. :-)

Many people who live well at tax-payers’ expense don’t realise that out there in the real world are others whose future is not assured by the tax-payer and who thrive due to their own hard work and risk taking. These people can’t understand that others are prepared to do something at their own expense.

I sent the UK version of the Evil Big Oil-funded calendar to a millennial catastophist of my acquaintance, to give you an idea, he thinks George Monbiot is the final arbiter of climate science.
His reply? ” Thanks (seriously) for the calendar – it is clever and funny, if misguided”. So there you are Guys and Gals, spread the good news in calendar form this Christmas.

Perfect Anthony. It would have been very amusing had those four each only contacted one another at first, making it appear the distribution were ‘widespread’. Worth every penny. A Merry Christmas to you and yours and the Mods and all who contribute here. Thank you for all you do..

Looks to me like Michael Mann is indulging in out and out defamation. Perhaps time he suffered a bit of lawfare himself.

That’s my thought too. Here’s the background on the Anthony/Heartland deal, which has been posted in one form or another widely enough that warmists ought to know about it. Watts isn’t paid for his blogging. A Heartland document describes a request he made last year for funding for a different project:

“Anthony Watts proposes to create a new Web site devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA’s web site and converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily found and understood by weathermen and the general interested public. Watts has deep expertise in Web site design generally and is well-known and highly regarded by weathermen and meteorologists everywhere. The new site will be promoted heavily at WattsUpwithThat.com. Heartland has agreed to help Anthony raise $88,000 for the project in 2011. The Anonymous Donor has already pledged $44,000. We’ll seek to raise the balance.”

Watts later reported on the progress of this project. Most of the money, apparently, will go to a contract programmer and for equipment and internet fees:

“Using the funds provided with the help of Heartland’s private donor, I hired a specialist programmer familiar with NOAA systems to trap and convert the NOAA sat feed data to look like any other hourly station (like ASOS hourly stations at airports etc) so that we’d be able to start the visualization and comparison process. This is just one phase of the project before it is ready for public consumption. When finished, there will be a website free and open to the public that will allow tracking and visualization of temperatures from the CRN right alongside that of the regular surface network”

That provoked an interesting definition of “widely distributed” wasn’t it?

It seems poor li’l old Mikey hasn’t got many friends if four (4) of his…
allies…received a copy as a “Christmas Gift” from the great big bad
sceptic Anthony Watts, to make it “widely distributed” and, of course, it
just had to be paid for by the Koch Foundation…like, he can’t afford $64
to shed a little a joy out of his meagre professorial salary … and research
funding.

Gee, that’s just so sad to see such a microscopic (microcephalic?) world view…

What a wonderful poke, Anthony. We’re about to have our own “Perfect
Storm” here in NZ. Cyclone Evan has slid south to meet a cold front over
the northern north island of NZ It’s now just a tropical storm (starting to
break up) and it’s grazing the north east of the North Island. Northland
to Auckland is going to be soaked. In the face of this, it was good to have
a good laugh.

Merry Christmas to all! The world hasn’t ended … yet again. (That must be
48 out of 48 EotW’s which have failed, so far … )

Defamation lawsuits are the means for a plaintiff to recover damages for loss of his/her good name and reputation. If the plaintiff’s reputation is anyway trashed then the customary award (at least in the UK, and I suspect in Canada too) is the derisory figure of £1 nominal damages only.

It strikes me that the good Dr’s tweets (including his wonderful description of us bloggers as “the rabble” as in an earlier WUWT thread) is leading exactly in that direction …

This picture of you four conspirators hanging out together in a pub tells a bigger story: You seem to have plenty of money to spend on beer, and clearly spend all your time hanging around in pubs getting drunk and laughing about your crimes against the Gods of Science. Now we can see it is not really you lot that write all these posts and papers criticizing the studious work of your betters. Be truthful they are written for you by the marketing departments of big oil. (sarc off)

What a silly remark. Don’t “concern troll” me about Newtown when I was not saying anything about that. I have a problem with all of Michael Moore’s work. Whatever one thinks of his overall policy positions, each film is a piece of scurrilous propaganda, smearing people and ripping bit and pieces of scenes out of context. The late Christopher Hitchens did a superb fisking of Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911″ for example.

No honest person should want either Michael Moore or Michael Mann as an “ally” on any issue.

“Ho ho ho” seems the most appropriate response here! Big Conspiracy meets Big Smile … and loses in the first round. Anthony, thank you for that very seasonal expression of goodwill to all Manns, and may that big smile thrive and prosper for another year. Merry Christmas!

To Chris Schoneveld Dec 22, 11:50 pm. I did had a major problem with Moore’s more recent claim that bin Laden was long deliberately left at large by the evil US to justify big US spending on the military-industrial complex. They will stop at nothing … Please can the Greens and media stop unloading whackos like Moore on Australia, with the GFC we’ve got enough problems.

I have never had a gun, with my eyesight a gun would endanger mainly my own feet. I have no fixed allegiance in US politics. I am not necessarily opposed to CO2 mitigation schemes if practical. I will happily adopt a more pro-AGW stance if the facts point that way. At present they do not; witness the lack of significant global warming for some 16 years.

Has anyone ever considered writing the Koch siblings with a tongue-and-cheek request for funding? Like 13.95 for a Josh Calendar? Then at least Mann could gain back a shred of respectablity by being correct about the Koch Kash tsunami that inundates our stridency.

If the mods will permit, and then I will not discuss further, the comparision I was thinking of for Michael Mann was more in the vein of this criticism of the distortions of Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911″ — it is an excellent take-down of Moore’s methods:

Serial litigators, who peddle bad science, are known for their extreme sensitivity and stunted sense of humour.

Unfortunately, he may have the last laugh knowing that it is almost impossible to fire senior, government funded, bureaucrats for incompetence and/or fraud, especially if they enjoy his kind of infamous reputation.

Hmm, perhaps going over a ‘fiscal cliff’ could be a good thing after all – pointless expenditure, such as promoting climate disinformation, could be among one of the first things to go.

It certainly does seem as if the guy has a high level of paranoia, but maybe he also feels under pressure/threat and feels he needs to react to every little thing?
Much as I think the guy is a poor climate scientist (as in unscientific), he probably isn’t actually a bad bloke, and in that sense he probably doesn’t deserve personal ridicule. Unfortunately, these kinds of responses from him suggest that he is deeply psychologically affected by such things (perhaps as well as politically motivated?) and has moved into his own alternative reality in the ‘world’ he has created in his own mind?
But more seriously, does he not realise how ridiculous he appears? Everyone makes feck-ups, but most normal folk simply hold their hand up and admit errors. Why can’t Mann just re-tweet that he made a mistake and recover the first smidgen of humility?
I dunno, I just wanted to say that we must not make ad hom material out of this – but it’s difficult and I personally find it hard to ‘feel’ for the guy based on his petty and childlike responses!

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COAL IS KING. IF ONLY OUR GOVT IN AUSTRALIA WOULD WAKE UP TO THE FACTS AND START BULDING SOME COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS, INSTEAD OF EXPORTING OUR COAL TO CHINA, WHILE PRETENDING TO SAVE THE PLANET.

Pat, has no-one pointed out the weakness of an argument that says that burning coal in Australia causes CAGW but shipping coal to China so it can be burned there does not?

Perhaps that is not the Australian government position – after all Maurice Strong, one of the creators of Agenda 21 has moved to China. Perhaps that is where the UN intend to put their seat of Global Governance and the Australian government is just sending its tithes early?

Yes “consensus” seems to be the correct collective noun for a group of climate scientists, so in that sense Michael Mann was quite right to say the calendar was widely distributed. Furthermore I am sure that deep down Anthony must be quite disappointed by Mann’s lack of Christmas spirit. I’m sure that he was hoping for a hockey stick in return!

This is awful. I true Scottish tradition I am not opening the envelope the calendar came in until the 1st. of January, and the curiosity is now almost too much to take.
But compliments of the season to all.

It’s one of the most profound delusions of the CAGW crowd (and explains a lot of their paranoid mindset). Because they float in an endless sea of public funding, they simply cannot conceive that anyone else would do such thing off their own back.

I am a skeptic and no fan of the Mann-kind, but I have been very worried recently that there is getting to be far too much ad hom at WUWT. We have rebuked others for this in the past and it would be best not to lay ourselves open to similar criticism.

Very amusing. I would like to have sent a copy to the awful William M. Connell[e]y and watch him spontaneously combust with rage. It would certainly have taken profanity to another level.
Season’s greetings to all at WUWT and thanks for the ongoing education throughout 2012.

It was a dark and stormy night
In a corner Michael sat
his yes closed, shaking, tormented.
Everyone and everything was against him.
Then suddenly the doorbell rang, outside stood the postman saying:
Special express delivery for you Sir.
The package he opened, finding inside the most horrifc
calender making fun of of him and his dear fellows,
mocking the CAUSE. Who might be so rude?
Anthony Watts? Michael sat down, bewildered,ponderng.
Then he suddenly rose, the storm ceased,the darkness went away,
the sun shone, angels were singing. Gotcha Anthony,
where did you get the money for this,
Big OIL,the Koch brothers?
He Facebooked ,he Tweeted, he Twa…d, finally his heyday had come.
Oh, glory.
Then there was a voice in his ear: Go visit WUWT and read about it.
HE payed for it himself………! Oh,no.
It was a dark and stormy night
In a corner Michael sat
his yes closed, shaking, tormented.
Everyone and everything was against him.
Again.

A Merry Christmas to you Anthony, your family and your helpers at WUWT.
Also a Merry Christmas to all contributors, it is always a pleasure to
read your posts.

Dr. Mann just can’t help himself, always inadvertently exposing that mighty bristlecone chip on his shoulder for all to see. Merry Christmas to Mr. Watts and all and a hearty thank you for nudging letting the chips fall where they may.

I don’t know about the USA, but in the UK there is a series of Children’s books called the ‘Mister Men’ They are named after attributes of characters .. e.g. There is ‘Mr Bump’, ‘Mr Silly’, Mr Grumpy, Mr Guilty .. etc etc (search for Roger Hargreaves Mr Men) I always think of these when I hear about the antics of some of these climate scientists .. Each event seems to refer precisely to a different character from the Mr Men ..

If Michael Mann and buddies can use one ttree in Yamal as a global representative changing world economies and world historry, it is then no wonder they would become alarmed by the distribution FOUR calendars in response.

‘strange pervading idea that skeptics are well funded and well organized. ‘ it provides them with comfort blanket to explain why the worlds not has they think it should be while at the same time allowing them to continue to believe there is nothing wrong with their message , the problem lies in others inability to understand it .

“….Am I the only thinking that perhaps – just perhaps – Mann might be joining in the joke?…”

Nah, he’s never shown any sign of a sense of humor before, and given his apparent obsession with his own fame and glory, I see no reason he’d suddenly develop any appreciation for a joke at his expense.

Pure projection on Mann’s part, since he has his own benefactors funding his lawsuits.
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Very true. I imagine that Mikey has such a miserly little soul filled with hate and paranoia he is utterly incapable of understanding human values like generosity, humor, honesty, pro-bono publico and volunteerism.

I wonder how much coal Santa is going to leave him…. (No I won’t go there)

I like the idea of Kenji sending these gifts in the future… and with, of course, a list of his esteemed credentials. And there could be pictures of Kenji in his lab coat, running complex experiments on cutting edge research…. on…. yellow snow, or something. :-)

My dog stops and does a chemical analysis of volatile components of every sample of discolored snow she smells. Pretty much every damn patch. And then adds her own discoloration….

I have travelled to the arctic circle sseveral times over the past 30 years and I can tell you without a doubt that the north is melting and rapidly. This web site has loads of data proving (look at the ice pages) that the planet is warming yet everyone here seems to ignore the obvious. No matter what you think or say here you will be effected by these changes. So let me spell it out for you.

There are companies that are buying ice breaking cargo ships because they intend to use the Northwest Passage to ship goods to Europe from Asia. This works because what ice that forms there is very thin and not multiyear, as it has been in the past. If you deny the fact that ice is melting you miss a great opportunity to make money. Asia isn’t missing that.

The US military and coast guard is spending lots of money on watching the northern ports of Russia, since now they can sail where only submarines could go in the past. In addition, the value of these ports to Russian industry will be huge, not to mention the possibility of shipping all of that oil and gas globally.

Oil companies are building rigs for the Arctic Ocean that will not depend on ice islands being created. They even believe the ice is melting. This is part of a huge resources grab going on in the Arctic Ocean. I hope we get a piece of that pie.

The US insurance industry is rapidly exiting the coastal insurance market. These companies deal in making decisions based on risk experience and they are running from the likes of Florida and the east coast. Pretty soon, the only insurance you will get in these areas will be backed by the government.

The views shared by the people who march in lock step with this web site, are all destined to be overtaken by events.

Meanwhile, as you are all trying hard to make the data fit the views expressed here, the rest of the world is moving on to living with, and taking advantage of, these changes. Wake up and get a clue!

2. Human activity has nothing measurable to do with it. Global warming is natural

3. An ice-free Northwest Passage will save immense amounts of fuel, and transit time

4. Melting Arctic ice is a non-event. It will not add one millimeter to the sea level

5. It is the alarmist cult that is always trying to make the data fit their belief system. When data and their models conflict, they discard the data

It is amazing how flat wrong someone can be, about everything. The climate alarmist crowd cannot ever admit that anything about a warming world could be beneficial. That indicates how out of touch with reality they are.

T Pugh says:
December 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
“I have travelled to the arctic circle sseveral times over the past 30 years and I can tell you without a doubt that the north is melting and rapidly.”

Well WUWT has the graphs that show it is, and that at the same time Antarctic Sea Ice is expanding. What’s your complaint?

“There are companies that are buying ice breaking cargo ships because they intend to use the Northwest Passage to ship goods to Europe from Asia. ”

Why do they need ice breakers when the ice is disappearing?

“The US military and coast guard is spending lots of money on watching the northern ports of Russia, since now they can sail where only submarines could go in the past. ”

T Pugh, WHY DID THEY BUILD PORTS WHEN THEY COULDN’T USE THEM? Think for a moment. There must be a reason for that.

“The US insurance industry is rapidly exiting the coastal insurance market. These companies deal in making decisions based on risk experience and they are running from the likes of Florida and the east coast. Pretty soon, the only insurance you will get in these areas will be backed by the government.”

That’s not new. You build homes on a sandbank called Long Island, the only insurance you get is federal, and ridiculously cheap. John Stossel explained on Fox News that he had the government pay him three homes over the years this way.

“The views shared by the people who march in lock step with this web site, are all destined to be overtaken by events.”

Wanna bet? I’m expecting cooling. My money is in oil, cement, steel. Oil because an inefficient society building windmills will need MORE, not less, cement because it makes great foundations for wind mills, steel because it makes great towers for windmills, all of which we wouldn’t need without the cargo cult science of global warming modelers, who, for all I can tell, have not yet understood the limitations of their models, as they lack the necessary mathematical education for that.

“Meanwhile, as you are all trying hard to make the data fit the views expressed here, the rest of the world is moving on to living with, and taking advantage of, these changes. Wake up and get a clue!”

Thank you very much for your condescension, but I’ve been exploiting the warmist cult rituals for years. Heck I even made money from a ridiculous food-to-fuel operation. I was not always that lucky with gaming the subsidy schemes of warmism but I’m getting better.

Oh BTW; I’m selling CPU’s and GPU’s as well, they make for great climate simulating supercomputers. AMD up 8% on Friday…

Mann’s reasoning was like this: If I get one of these, then surely everybody else will, too. In a man who has risen to fame both as a hockey star and a Nobelist, I find this natural, unaffected modesty most commendable.

Skiphil says:
December 22, 2012 at 9:15 pm
“Everything I see of Michael Mann makes me think that he is merely Michael Moore with a PhD, another hot-headed propagandist with no respect for factual accuracy.”

Chris Schoneveld says:
December 22, 2012 at 11:50 pm
“Skiphil, what an ill-timed comment about Michael Moore after the Newtown massacre. You had a problem with Moore’s Columbine movie?”

I fully agree with Skiphil. Chris Schoeneveld, are you saying we can’t criticize Moore for x months after somebody gets shot?
Well, I think you’re reducing Moore’s work too much.
We should by your logic also not criticize him as long as anyone is obese, or as long as anyone on the planet practizes the dark art of capitalism.

There is a difference as the book points out that they were mostly within reach of the shore line and this passage has opened on and off over the years. The reason shipping companies are spending billions on these new ships is because it is open for much longer and over a much wider region that will allow an easy shipping route. It’s very different.

In addition I have been to quite a few of the places noted in the book. So I have first hand experince. Maybe I could suggest you try giong to these areas and forming your own judgement.

…..Hmm, perhaps going over a ‘fiscal cliff’ could be a good thing after all – pointless expenditure, such as promoting climate disinformation, could be among one of the first things to go…..
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It is my New Year’s Wish.

Unfortunately politicians NEVER EVER cut the gravy trains they use to reward campaign funders and hangers-on. Any proposed cuts are always cuts designed to hurt the tax payer the most.

Aren’t the 163 comments already made here and the several thousands of visitors today on WUWT enough evidence of the evilness of the Koch Brothers?

Obviousley they are forcing hundreds of their employees to work the weekend before Christmas, visit WUWT and write comments here, just to make it look like WUWT was a popular site. And let’s not forget all the planes with them they throw several million tons of frozen ice over the UK and other parts of europe every year aabout this time of the year in order to cover the fact that snow has become impossible in those areas.

FTT T Pugh;
No one here denies that we’ve had some warming, or that Arctic sea ice extent is down from what it was 30 years ago. It is actually the Warmist cult that make the facts fit their so-far unsubstantiated conjecture that man is causing the rather mild and in no way unprecedented warming. If you stick around, you might actually learn something.

I have travelled to the arctic circle sseveral times over the past 30 years and I can tell you without a doubt that the north is melting and rapidly…..

Wake up and get a clue!
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Thirty years? Only thirty years?Graph 1

Peer-reviewed Paper
Pay special note to the section about “..the first major reactivation of the bipolar seesaw would probably constitute an indication that the transition to a glacial state had already taken place.”

DickH: Boy, did I hit a sore spot. Your comments prove my point. You are shouting so loud that you are missing the events that are really happening that will effect us all in many ways.

Ice breakers – because its a business bet that they can extend the shipping season by a few weeks.
Russian ports – Before the USSR that was the only coast line they had and now again, the same is true. These ports were almost exclusively military in nature – remember the cold war?
Insurance – the difference is that they are deserting whole states not just regions that have local problems.
Ice melting – as I am sure you know there are many reasons north and south act differently – more ice in the south does not disprove the facts I have stated above.

Is Costco aware of this incredible testimonial to the professional appearance of their calendars?

I got 2 “free” copies of a calendar featuring a picture of my car that I sent in (free= ‘just pay postage and a small handling fee’), and I guarantee nobody would mistake the quality of that calendar with a mass-produced slick and glossy production… so Costco should be proud.

Some days I feel kinda bad for Mann. But that goes away soon enough. I think we’ve all known people a lot like him during our working lives, and, yeah, it’s hard to feel bad for too long.

For reference, I once sent a lawyer a tube of KY (pretty sure everyone can make the connection). The calendar, in comparison, was a nice gesture.

T Pugh says:
December 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
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Actually, the planet is not warming. In fact, the planet has cooled in the last ten years are so. See the temperature data for the last 16 years.

But before you start to rejoice over this news, consider this: a warmer planet is entirely beneficial; life flourishes in warmer times. Cold is the scythe of death. This planet is still in the ice age. Presently it is in an interstadial which cannot last and continental ice sheets will return. When this begins, it is the crack of doom.

-Colder winters mean higher fuel bills and more discomfort. Quality of lifestyle diminishes during more severe winters. Older people especially suffer. Winter storms means death for unfortunates who get stranded or who cannot afford fuel.

-Cold brings extinctions, this shown by paleontological studies.

-Cold brings a shorter growing season, less humidity, a shrinkage of arable land world-wide and less food production, and famine. This is of paramount concern for a world whose population will double and redouble this century. A cooling globe threatens world-wide famine with billions of deaths through starvation and lowered resistance to disease.

-A cooling globe means the accumulation of ice in polar regions. Sea level will fall. Ports will be stranded. With no ports, international trade will be ruined. World-wide economic depression more severe than any before will be the result, with economic hardship for the billion, already threatened with starvation. Present beach-front property values will plummet.

-I could go on, but I think you get the picture. So think of your grandchildren and pray for a warmer world.
Cheers.

T Pugh says:
December 23, 2012 at 6:44 am
“The reason shipping companies are spending billions on these new ships is because it is open for much longer and over a much wider region that will allow an easy shipping route. ”

Ah well, it wouldn’t be the first costly mistake.
I approach my warming-related investments with the 100% conviction that IT’s A SCAM from start to finish – and that the investors and governments riding it KNOW it’s a scam, witness GE and the Immelt-Obama connection, and since I decided to do so, I haven’t lost any money with warming related investments.

So thank you very much, I’ll happily provide the steel for the ships these guys have themselves built but I won’t touch a shipping company with a ten foot pole. Most of them will perish.

They already started doing so, remember the publicity stunt of the Beluga?

They’re broke now, they made headlines by running a ship through the North East passage in Summer, accompanied by a Russian ice breaker; German media fell all over themselves pontificating about the significance of this epic voyage (ignoring the fact that for some reason somebody had ports all along the way… )

Remember my words, it’s all a scam and the people partaking it know it. If you invest in it you are a minor player in the scam so you’ll be toast when the big boys call it quits… but maybe you can make a dime from frontrunning… that’s the only dime you can make.

T Pugh says:
December 23, 2012 at 7:11 am
“DickH: Boy, did I hit a sore spot. Your comments prove my point. You are shouting so loud that you are missing the events that are really happening that will effect us all in many ways. ”

You’re telling ME you hit a “sore spot” yet YOU are mutilating my name? Okay, projection, it shows. Again, T Pugh: I’m currently making money. I hope I will continue to do so. Betting on an increase in inefficiency through misguided policies, driving up demand for certain things that would otherwise not be needed.

As long as you warmists continue to print money to build useless things, making societies even more inefficient, this bet looks good.

DickH: Boy, did I hit a sore spot. Your comments prove my point. You are shouting so loud that you are missing the events that are really happening that will effect us all in many ways…..
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Sigh, you are making the mistake of thinking we are your typical bloggers with a high school education at most and no idea of what is happening round the world or in science. You are incorrect. The Arctic sea Ice is a frequent topic here:

A listing of the 287 WUWT articles on the Arctic with active links is HERE You can go click on them.

“Who paid for production and shipping costs for this flashy (apparently widely distributed) Anthony Watts WUWT climate change denial calendar?”
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Mikey!
That is tacky and very bad manners. You never ask about the cost of a gift. I taught you better than that.

roflao, got my comment removed on mann’s page about the calender, i was polite. Just asked if he checked his facts before he posted. Or was it like his tree ring data, that he manipulated ? to suit his own agende.

what the hell its typical of those that support AGW, in that you cant question the lies they put out

It HAD to be funded by the Koch brothers….in Mann’s gravy train world it is impossible with his belief system to even conceive of the idea of someone spending their own personal money on something they are committed too.

This is how his brain works. Just like how his cognitive bias towards his eco-religion, and lack of critical thinking skills, are what prevent him from doing real science. He is beyond redemption.

Ahhh… Dr. Mann: You’re the BEST of the BEST of the BEST! You’re everything we’ve come to expect from YEARS of government funding. We encourage you to display your calendar with pride beside your widely distributed Nobel Peace Prize.

Hmmm….Yesterday when I retrieved our mail there was a package, and I noticed it was from Costco. As I didn’t order anything from Costco, I’m thinking this “calendar conspiracy” must be bigger than we thought! The fact that my wife snatched it away from me, accusing me of looking at her mail means nothing.

Anthony Watts says:
December 22, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Great idea Mosh! He’d probably go buy them all to keep them from being seen.
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No, he would get a federal research grant to buy them up.

1. Ask goddard to dredge up the worst weather news for every day of the year.
2. Pick a worst for every month
3. Josh to do a cartoon on the worst weather for that month.
4. for every day of the year put the description of the worst weather for that day in the
box. Like Feb 14: 1898: flood kills 3000 in timbuktoo

Of course the cartoon can feature some little mann making pronouncements

Your comment is a general one not necessarily addressed to the current post. As such, it is a useful comment. No one seems to have addressed it with respect to this post, so I will.

Subtle or not so subtle differences in context need to be recognized. When Person XYZ makes a statement about climate or any other legitimate subject it is not appropriate to attack their personal appearance, the religion they were born into or accept, members of their family, and all such things. When a person makes a public statement that is stupendously silly, seems clueless about the world, lacks understanding regarding irony, lacks a sense of humor, and a sense of good cheer during these seasonal holidays . . . then it is not an ad hominem argument to point out that the person is behaving in one or more of the ways mentioned.

Arguments of the ad hominem kind focus not on the evidence but on the character of the person advancing it, seeking to discredit positions by discrediting those who hold them. Some comments above might fail in this regard. But that’s is not the fault of the post as done by Mr. Watts.

Maybe we got the wrong meaning?
koch-machine is german for cook-machine.
kochen=boiling
Wonder if somebody felt boiling, watching the calendar?
Well done Anthony, small presents bring big smiles!
And a super thanks to Josh!

Recall what Steve mc talked about. Storms of our parents and grand parents…..
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Oh that one would be great to send to all our politicians to remind them Weather Weirding is Warped thinking, but we need it before Jan 1 and they stick us with a carbon tax.

Highly amusing.
But, like several of the other commenters, I start to feel a little – tiny – bit sorry for the esteemed Dr. Mann.
Can he really be so severely by-passed at the humerus?
I think Penn State should seriously consider some form of analyst for their star climate chap. He’s brought millions in grants – its is the least they can do . . . .
Otherwise – Merry Christmas to all (INCLUDING the fragrant Dr. Mann) and all best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year.

1. Ask goddard to dredge up the worst weather news for every day of the year.
2. Pick a worst for every month
3. Josh to do a cartoon on the worst weather for that month.
4. for every day of the year put the description of the worst weather for that day in the
box. Like Feb 14: 1898: flood kills 3000 in timbuktoo

Of course the cartoon can feature some little mann making pronouncements
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Perhaps add some of the predictions the Hansenites have said should have happened by now along with a few quotes that had been used to describe how “extreme” last year’s weather had been?

Michael Moore: “ARGH! Anthony Watts MUST be funded by the Koch brothers to have the money to send me this! Now if you will excuse me, I need to cash my check from a George Soros organization before the banks close for Christmas.”

(Just a little satire to highlight the hypocrisy of fussing about where someone gets funding.)

Hmmm….Yesterday when I retrieved our mail there was a package, and I noticed it was from Costco. As I didn’t order anything from Costco, I’m thinking this “calendar conspiracy” must be bigger than we thought! The fact that my wife snatched it away from me, accusing me of looking at her mail means nothing.

Mine came addressed to my wife. As she didn’t remember ordering anything from CostCo, she figured it was a present to her from someone and gave it to me to open and wrap. I think I’m still expected to wrap it.

Mann’s analytical skills are clearly poor,,, if he is not careful he may one day publish something and declare the results as fact and convince gullible governments and media organisations to abandon rational study and strategy and pour money into things they may not need to…. oh hang on a minute…… ;-)

Oakden Wolf (@oakden_wolf) says:
December 23, 2012 at 10:54 am
“For DirkH and any other readers of this blog that are interested in the real deal story on Antarctic sea ice:”

That’s better than I thought, a real side-splitter if you’re not an American taxpayer, now look at this, they found out that it snows on the sea ice. No really.

“Flooded Sea Ice Turns Snow to Ice

Water-logged sea ice is the third phenomenon that may explain why sea ice in the Antarctic is increasing. The process, which scientists call “snow-to-ice conversion,” occurs when the weight of accumulated snow presses down on a slab of sea ice until it’s nearly submerged. When that happens, waves cause ocean water to spill on top of the ice and into the snow, forming a layer that eventually freezes and becomes “snow ice.””

And re the 1.2 bn USD a year in Global warming research funds that NASA devours, here’s the links, just for brevity.

I mentioned it in another blog, and a poster challenged me to deny that Anthony/WUWT was on a $90K salary from Heartland. Of course, I clarified that Anthony had initiated a project to make a valuable but nearly unusable gov’t database accessible with an open graphics package, costing about $80K, and that one of Heartland’s backers had anonymously contributed ½, $40K, the rest being raised through WUWT readership, etc. That this was a one-time event, and that not a dime had gone from Heartland to WUWT before or after. I invited him to examine the relationship of RealClimate to its fatcat PR firm owner, Fenton, as a contrast to the out-of-pocket and readership supported WUWT, or any other sceptic site.

The realities of “sceptic funding” seem to be just opaque and incomprehensible to these loons. They project their own situations and motivations — and condemn them!!

Regarding the snow-on-ice mechanism, the operative part is that it is snowing more now on both the sea ice and the Antarctic continent than in the recent past. So that mechanism is becoming more important and significant.

Got to this thread late since this morning I had to plow snow for a couple of hours for the Christmas buffet here at our club. Was further detained after filling snow plow with gas(JD 260 diesel of course!). After running ok for 15 minutes it stopped…2 hours later and fuel system drained and refilled in busy parking lot here I am…
Anthony, had I known you were sending Mikey a Christmas gift I would have been happy to donate a fruit cake!

T Pugh says:
December 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
I have travelled to the arctic circle sseveral times over the past 30 years and I can tell you without a doubt that the north is melting and rapidly. This web site has loads of data proving (look at the ice pages) that the planet is warming yet everyone here seems to ignore the obvious. No matter what you think or say here you will be effected by these changes. So let me spell it out for you.
You have seen all the responses so far and I have the feeling that you are disregarding them all as hand waving and bloviating by people who haven’t seen what you have seen – and you have 30 years experience of sailing in the Arctic. Unfortunately, you are making the mistake in thinking that your experience is the ‘normal’ for the Arctic. It isn’t. There is a continual cycle of large melts followed by recoveries. But I do not expect you to believe me after all I am just hand waviing like the rest. So why not read: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf ?
This is an archive of reports saved by NOAA. The report you should read starts 2/3rds of the way down the left column. It is a report from a Geology lecturer from the University of Christiana on the great changes his expedition have found in the Arctic in November 1922 Ninety (90) years ago:“The oceanographic observations have, however, been
even more interesting. Ice conditions were exceptional.
In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The
expedition all but established a record, sailing as far
north as 8ldeg21min in ice-free water. This is the farthest
north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.
The character of the waters of the great polar basin
has heretofore been practically unknown. Dr. Hoel reports
that he made a section of the Gulf Stream at 81′
north latitude and took soundings to a depth of 3,100
meters. These show the Gulf Stream very warm, and it
could be traced as a surface current till beyond the 81st
parallel. The warmth of the waters makes it probable
that the favorable ice conditions will continue for some time.”

They even quote someone who sounds very much like you only he had more than 54 years experience sailing in the Arctic – and makes almost precisely the same comments as you – except a century earlier…

“In connection with Dr. Hoel’s report, it is of interest
to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway
and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigtsen, who
has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says
that he first noted warmer conditions in 1915, that since
that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day
the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same
region of 1865 to 1917.

You make much of the race for oil – this expedition was no different except they were looking for coal. The report says:
“Dr. Hoel, who has just returned, reports the location
of hitherto unknown coal deposits on the eastern shores
of Advent Bay-deposits of vast extent and superior
quality. This is regarded as of first importance, as so
far most of the coal mined by the Norwegian companies
on those islands has not been of the best quality.”
Plus ca change – the race to reach easy access resources was present even a century ago.
So we have reports from 100 years ago that sound almost precisely the same as your post. Its warmer than ever, there is no ice, there is a search for fossil fuel resources. Indeed, the ocean was completely ice free as far as 81:21N. Yet we know that the ice returned again after that then melted again during the 1940’s then returned again. This is a cycle slightly longer than a man’s lifetime experience. The Vikings sailed to Greenland and created large communities with arable farming for several centuries, and also had communities in North East Canada, It is a natural cycle. Those who have not learned history are unaware that they are watching a repeat. Perhaps you should read some history it can be more reliable than politicians and climate ‘scientists’ as it actually happened.

Oakden Wolf (@oakden_wolf) says:
December 23, 2012 at 1:24 pm
“DirkH
I don’t believe that GISS is strongly allied with NASA’s cryosphere program. Maybe more research is required ;-)”

I am very sure NASA’s cryosphere program will not find out anything that could jeopardize the very successful grant-grabbing enabled by Dr. Hansen, of NASA GISS fame, with his superior temperature extrapolation technique.

Or if they do, they will cover it in caveats as thick as the Antarctic ice shield.

See, that’s how much I trust NASA. You won’t convince me otherwise. Money talks. Same thing happening here in the EU, of course. 200bn of the 2013 EU budget (research and non research combined) are marked as being for “climate-related” activities.

Meaning, up for grabs by the people in the know, never to be seen again.

Ian W says: December 23, 2012 at 1:54 pm
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Thank you for that post. This is the sort of post that should silence the wailing and the hand wringing over melting ice. But the global warmers always ignore this sort of proof.

“Dr. Hoel reports that he made a section of the Gulf Stream at 81′
north latitude and took soundings to a depth of 3,100
meters. These show the Gulf Stream very warm, and it
could be traced as a surface current till beyond the 81st
parallel. The warmth of the waters makes it probable
that the favorable ice conditions will continue for some time.”

Here is the reason for the present warmth in the arctic. The global warmers refuse to look past their cherished and oft-refuted AGW theory. SST is due to insolation, not the greenhouse effect. Warmer SST is not due to AGW, and this is incontrovertably so.

Mann may be upset because he was planning on coming out with his own calendar to “communicate better” about climate science. However by the time the Team got done with artistic design, detailed wording, stock selection, several rounds of reviews with 97% of top climate scientists, status meetings in Hawaii, etc., etc., the cost estimates were up over $800K and he was putting together a grant application to cover it.

Thus his comment about where you are getting funding for your effort.

/sarc, in case anyone needs it.

By coincidence, my calendar arrived on the 21st. I will hang it up at work when I return.

I had a feeling CtM was younger than the rest. The Snark is strong in This One. Merry Christmas to Anthony, Charles, Willis, and everyone responsible for this great place. Happy Solstice to those of another bent, even Dr. Mann and his crew!

It is not just a sense of humor that Dr Mann lacks, it is a sense of proportion. Climate science is connected to the real world by statistical analysis, so this lack of proportion is more than a trivial issue.

It used to be a kind face was a rarity
But now I got friends coming out both ends just to visit me
But it don’t make sense ’cause my confidence has been destroyed
Everybody loves me but I’m paranoid

What ever happened to the cold cruel world I used to understand
When every road was paved with wet cement
Back when if I was hanging off a cliff you’d be walking on my hands
Somebody please tell me where all the good times went whooo

What strikes me about so many of these “the-science-is-settled!” types such as Dr. Mann, who scoff at what they claim is the gross a-scientific background of those who disagree with their diktat about the climate, are really, shockingly, ignorant of so many of the everyday, pedestrian parts of modern technological life which everyman takes for granted and then masters and uses without a second thought, such as the ease and little expense with which we can now draft, create, copy, transfer and distribute a humorous and professional-looking “climate calendar”. I mean, these guys keep telling us we should listen to them because of how smart they are, right? Uh, not so fast there, Dr. Mann…

Given the reaction, I’d say my plan to spread a little good humor just didn’t work on the humorless
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Go on. It’s just annoying and inflammatory.

So Michael Mann has some crazy speculation that you’re funded by the Koch brothers. This is the same level of sanity that the WUWT readers display when they reckon that AGW is a world wide plot by thousands of climate scientists.

Not really. There is only a relatively small clique of AGW promoting scientists. The rest are newspaper reporters, ignorant editorial writers, scientifically illiterate lay persons, self-serving blog promoters, and various other clueless lemmings.

If AGW-alarmist scientists were too numerous, their grant gravy train would have to be shared by too many, and the central clique would have to take a pay cut. They certainly don’t want that.

The OISM Petition proved beyond doubt that the vast majority of professionals in the hard sciences do not buy into the “carbon” scare. Despite numerous attempts, the alarmist crowd has been unable to come anywhere close to the OISM numbers. But not for lack of trying.

He obviously suffers from Small Mann complex which is not at all related to small man complex which purportedly applies to short people. Michael is just small. Small in intellect, small in wit, small in thought. His is a small universe – filled mostly with himself. His peers likely would rather be known as anything but. Should he ever reference one of my papers I fear I shall burn it straight away. Other than that he seems like a novel chap you’d like to have a beer over when he’s gone. Later I shall focus on less kind impressions of the Mann and his climate foibles. Keep you your stick on the ice!

“…really, shockingly, ignorant of so many of the everyday, pedestrian parts of modern technological life which everyman takes for granted and then masters and uses without a second thought, such as the ease and little expense with which we can now draft, create, copy, transfer and distribute a humorous and professional-looking “climate calendar”. “

Yes, well put Sardondi, I’ve noticed that too. Why is this? Probably because they’re living in a well-funded bubble and really don’t have any intellectual curiousity. Which being up a related point — why do they so readily accuse others of being funded by commercial interests? Most likely because they simply project their own situation and mentality onto others.

Maybe we need to ask just where did Michael Mann get the funds to get a “alarmist” book published? Considering that it was released by Columbia University Press, I’m sure he had help – maybe even using some of his “climate science” grant money to push this out.

You do have to wonder why he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) use Pennsylvania State University’s press (http://www.psupress.org) to put it out. He does work there, doesn’t he?

Never mind – I’ve figured it out: “…Penn State University Press is dedicated to serving the University community, the citizens of Pennsylvania, and scholars worldwide by publishing books and journals of the highest quality…”

Perhaps we ought to each select our favorite bits of FOIA email and make them in to a calendar too, then send them to “selected folks”… I can see that causing stratospheric ejecta ;-)
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HMMM,

How about Mosher’s historic climate catastrophe pictorial with caption at the top and a favorite bit of FOIA e-mail at the bottom or in those extra day spaces calenders always have.

LazyTeenager says:
December 23, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Go on. It’s just annoying and inflammatory.
So Michael Mann has some crazy speculation that you’re funded by the Koch brothers. This is the same level of sanity that the WUWT readers display when they reckon that AGW is a world wide plot by thousands of climate scientists.
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Lazy, you and Mickey have a lot in common. Please point to one WUWT article that expresses the view that AGW is a conspirracy by thousands of climate scientist. Oh, and for bonus points please list the thousands of atmospheric scientist that support CAGW. I nticed you left the “C” off of CAGW. Without the “C” you have nothing. Once again you live up to your handle. Perhaps you are funded by the Koch brothers.

LazyTeenager says:
December 23, 2012 at 6:15 pm
“So Michael Mann has some crazy speculation that you’re funded by the Koch brothers. This is the same level of sanity that the WUWT readers display when they reckon that AGW is a world wide plot by thousands of climate scientists.”

The climate modelers are bought and paid for. The next EU budget has about 200 bn EUR earmarked for “climate related activities”.

Sooo…. As long as the Eurocrats can spread the meme that CO2 is gonna kill us all, they get all this nice money to move around… into whichever pocket they desire…

The climate modelers (I’d like to avoid the word “scientist” here) just enable this corrupti0n. We all have to choose whether we want to be efficient or honest, remember?

pat says:
December 22, 2012 at 6:41 pm
COAL IS KING. IF ONLY OUR GOVT IN AUSTRALIA WOULD WAKE UP TO THE FACTS AND START BULDING SOME COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS, INSTEAD OF EXPORTING OUR COAL TO CHINA, WHILE PRETENDING TO SAVE THE PLANET.
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What Oz is exporting to China is prosperity, funded by a CO2 tax on ‘stralians. The people of OZ are paying the people of China to take Ozzie coal and burn it in China. Then Mother Nature ships the CO2 back to Oz. Within a few years this unfair competition, created by the Ozzie government policies and Chinese currency manipulation will wipe out manufacturing in Oz, reducing Aussie CO2 production.

How can any manufacturer compete when the Chinese can land manufactured goods on your doorstep for less than what it costs to by the raw materials wholesale?

LazyTeenager says:
December 23, 2012 at 6:15 pm
“AGW is a world wide plot by thousands of climate scientists.”
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When the US government pays scientists 90 billion dollars to find evidence of AGW, you will get $90 billion dollars worth of studies saying “here is evidence of AGW”. You may recall the Al Gore was Vice President for 8 years while these policies were set in place.

If you paid me $90 billion dollars to prove that red hair makes men tall, I could quite easily find and publish tens of thousands of example of tall red-headed men. Clearly proof that red-hair makes men tall. I expect my peers would be more than happy to review and approve my studies in return for me taking the time to review and approve their studies.

No conspiracy is required. Simply money handed out based on a religious belief Al Gore and others have been promoting for 30 years, using science as a tool to promote the belief, and public funds to game the system by rewarding the faithful.

this is one of the best ideas yet. you owe me a keyboard, as i spit my adult beverage all over it.
i am co-opting, with appropriate credit to WUWT, to do the same for my veganazi associates (photos of meat with recipes), my weaponophobics associates (self defense,hunting and target photos + news articles of those folks saved by their personal defense items), the best cigars calendar including the economics gain to the impoverished leaf growers to my pissy/whiny non-smoker zealots… dang, this just goes on and on!

How can these be obtained in Australia ? Need to send some some well deserving folk like Tim Flannery, David Karoly, et al – our own ‘enlightened’ alarmist community – all living on the knife edge of penury – caused by their devotion to ‘saving the planet’
Sure ….